Mathijs Noij will be the new editor-in-chief of university magazine Vox from 1 January. He succeeds Annemarie Haverkamp, who is stepping down from her position.

Mathijs Noij (33) is currently interim editor-in-chief, a position he has held since 2018. He has worked at the editorial board of the university magazine for over eight years. Noij studied human geography at Radboud University and went on to work as a journalist at de Volkskrant and De Persdienst.

Open debate

Noij greatly values the critical voice of Vox. ‘I take the journalistic role of Vox very serious. Especially in a time where the university is increasingly making their own content, and publishing it via their own channels, it is important to have an independent voice. Independent correspondence stimulates an open debate – which is important for a well-functioning university.’

Vox publishes four magazines each year (not counting covid), with daily articles being published on voxweb.nl. Noij: ‘For the time being, I do not want to change that. The paper magazine reaches a different audience than the website and vice versa.’ He does want to conduct a reader survey to find out what kind of articles students and employees want to see.

Eleven years

Noij succeeds Annemarie Haverkamp, who recently announced she is stepping down as editor-in-chief. She led the editorial board for eleven years. She will remain a part-time employee of Vox, but she wants to also focus on writing books.

Almost a year ago, Haverkamp’s son Job passed away, about who she wrote columns and books for eighteen years. ‘It drastically changed my life’, she said earlier. ‘Since his passing I have a much clearer picture of where my passions lie, and that is with writing.’

Mathijs Noij starts as editor-in-chief on 1 January.